With Spring around the corner, plants, trees and shrubs will soon be bursting into bloom. Now’s the time to get your pruning shears out.

or extreme temperatures that may inhibit your ornamental cherry tree from thriving. What you can do is identify and handle poor pruning techniques, dehydration, six-legged invaders, or fungal ...

The cherries were a wonderful surprise in the first year, but the tree has not been particularly bountiful since ...

Pruning can also help tame excessive growth that shades the inner canopy, inhibits flowering ... apricot, cherry, fig, nectarine, peach, pear, persimmon, plum, and pomegranate trees.

A guide to the best trees for glorious cherry blossom - Who needs to visit Japan when you can grow ornamental cherry trees at home?

Thanks to the Japanese passion for flowering cherry trees and the breeding that's been carried out ... should be cut off as soon as you see them. Avoid pruning if possible, but do it in summer if you ...

Don't prune in early spring, as many trees bleed sap if cut at this time of year. The exceptions to the 'deciduous tree' rule are maple, horse chestnut, birch, walnut and cherry trees which all ...